arXiv:2606. 30961v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advances in deep learning architectures and representations have enabled ML-driven chemical property prediction, but state-of-the-art (SOTA) models have remained largely confined to independent codebases and lack support for diverse chemical species.
By Jacob W. Toney, Samir Darouich, Yiran Wang, Aaron G. Garrison, Johannes K\"astner, Heather J. Kulik
The article discusses how the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is transforming chemical engineering by influencing problem formulation, analysis, and solution across a wide range of applications, from atomic-scale simulations to industrial operations. It highlights recent methodological advances and representative uses, noting a shift from purely black-box models to hybrid and physics-informed frameworks that incorporate conservation laws, thermodynamic consistency, and structural constraints. These integrated approaches enhance robustness, reliability, and human-AI collaboration, ultimately amplifying rather than replacing core chemical engineering principles.
By Michael Baldea, Linda J. Broadbelt, Marianthi G. Ierapetritou, Akhilesh Jain, Ankur Kumar, Thomas A. Kwan, F\`elix Llovell, Andrew J. Medford, Ilias Mitrai, Joel Paulson, Junyi Qiao, Matthew P. Rivera, Kirti C. Sahu, Lev Sarkisov, Zachary P. Smith, Calvin Tsay, Ching-Mei Wen, Victor M. Zavala, Huacheng Zhang, Dan Zhao
BOOM is a new benchmark for evaluating out‑of‑distribution (OOD) molecular property predictions in machine learning. It provides chemically‑informed tests across common property prediction tasks and assesses over 150 model‑task combinations. The study shows that current models, including chemical foundation models, struggle to generalize OOD, with the best model still exhibiting three times higher error than in‑distribution predictions.
By Evan R. Antoniuk, Shehtab Zaman, Tal Ben-Nun, Peggy Li, James Diffenderfer, Busra Sahin, Obadiah Smolenski, Everett Grethel, Tim Hsu, Anna M. Hiszpanski, Kenneth Chiu, Bhavya Kailkhura, Brian Van Essen
arXiv:2608.23874v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Predicting thermal stability during handling and storage is essential for the design of safe and reliable energetic materials. However, experimental...
By Megan C. Davis, R. Seaton Ullberg, Jeremy N. Schroeder, Andrew H. Salij, Marc J. Cawkwell, Christopher J. Snyder, Ivana Matanovic, Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp
arXiv:2606. 02662v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning has accelerated quantum chemistry but is hindered by the prohibitive cost of generating high fidelity training data.
By Vivin Vinod, Peter Zaspel
arXiv:2604. 11827v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine learning is revolutionizing chemistry.
By Hannes Kneiding, Luc\'ia Mor\'an-Gonz\'alez, Nishamol Kuriakose, Ainara Nova, David Balcells
The paper introduces Align-React, a chemical reaction representation learning framework that incorporates atomic correspondence between reactants and products, an adapter for embedding reaction conditions, and a Reaction-Center-Aware attention mechanism. These components enable the model to capture precise molecular transformations and focus on critical functional groups, leading to improved performance across a variety of organic reaction tasks. The framework outperforms existing architectures on most benchmark datasets.
By Kaipeng Zeng, Xianbin Liu, Yu Zhang, Xiaokang Yang, Yaohui Jin, Yanyan Xu
arXiv:2606. 30170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative molecular design is shaped by simple proxy benchmarks for drug-like properties and models pretrained on large pharmaceutical datasets.
By Matthias Blaschke, Daniel Kienzle, Zsuzsanna Koczor-Benda, Julian Lorenz, Rainer Lienhart, Fabian Pauly
arXiv:2606. 05693v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for molecular property prediction, but their ability to reason over chemical structures remains limited, as molecular representations such as SMILES differ substantially from the natural language on which LLMs are primarily trained.
By Joey Chan, Wonbin Kweon, Ashley Shin, Niharika Bhattacharjee, Pengcheng Jiang, Yue Guo, Jiawei Han
arXiv:2608.30636v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Optimizing absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) is an important part of small molecule drug discovery. Many machine learning mode...
By Christina X. Ji
arXiv:2607. 08996v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph Neural Networks have emerged as a powerful tool for the fast and accurate prediction of various crystal properties.
By Shrimon Mukherjee, Kishalay Das, Partha Basuchowdhuri, Pawan Goyal, Niloy Ganguly
arXiv:2504. 12075v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In the present work, a generative deep learning framework combining a Co-optimized Variational Autoencoder (Co-VAE) with quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) techniques is developed to enable inverse molecular design of fuels.
By Kiran K. Yalamanchi, Pinaki Pal, Balaji Mohan, Abdullah S. AlRamadan, Jihad A. Badra, Yuanjiang Pei